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PepsiCo Chief Scientific Officer Mehmood Khan Joins CTO Forum Executive Board
Santa Clara, California – September 11, 2013 –The CTO Forum and PepsiCo today announced that Dr. Mehmood Khan, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for PepsiCo, has been appointed to the CTO Forum Advisory Board. The CTO Forum brings together senior technology executives and business leaders in order to discuss and collaborate on key technology issues facing the industry and to accelerate innovation across organizations.
"We are very honored to welcome Mehmood Khan to our advisory board. He brings over twenty years of experience in the medical, pharmaceutical andfood and beverage fields with a proven R&D track record. His knowledge,expertise and vision will be a huge asset for the CTO Forum,” saidBasheerJanjua, founder and chairman of the CTO Forum and CEO ofIntegnology Corporation.
“I’m equally honored to be working with my friends and colleagues at the CTO Forum. Their efforts benchmarking technologies and strategies thataddress global challenges facing business, society and quality of lifeare making a significant impact,” said Dr. Mehmood Khan, Chief Scientific Officer, PepsiCo. “In so many ways, the CTO Forum serves the samepurpose as our global R&D organization at PepsiCo, which is equallycommitted to global best practice exchanges across process, technologyand product innovations critical to the future of PepsiCo.”
In his role at PepsiCo, starting in 2007, Mehmood Khan has led astrategic transformation to transform, grow and continually enhance the company’s global portfolio of high-quality food and beverage offerings.Under his leadership, the R&D team has led the development of importantnutrition platforms such as fruits and vegetables, dairy, baked grains,and hummus and other fresh dips.
Over the past six years, in an effort to further develop categories and capture the growth opportunities of the future, the R&D function hasexpanded its research capabilities by recruiting highly regarded clinicaland food scientists, global health leaders and medical experts, inaddition to launching research projects with leading universitiesworldwide. In 2012 alone, PepsiCo opened three new R&D centers ofexcellence: in Hamburg, Germany, Shanghai; China; and Monterrey, Mexico.
Before joining PepsiCo, Dr. Khan was President, Takeda Global Research & Development Center, overseeing its worldwide research and developmentefforts with sales of over $10 billion worldwide. Previous to thatposition, Dr. Khan was a consultant endocrinologist and faculty member atthe Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., serving alsoas the Director of the Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutritional Trials Unit inthe division of endocrinology. Prior to the Mayo Clinic, he spent nineyears leading programs in diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, andnutrition including as Chief of Endocrinology for the Hennepin CountyMedical Center in Minneapolis, University of MN. He has served as facultyboth in the department of Food Sciences, College of Agriculture and theMedical School at the University of MN.
Dr. Khan serves on a number of national and state committees including as a Governor of the New York Academy of Sciences, a member of the State ofIllinois Innovation Council and a member of the Board of the AmericanDiabetes Association Research Foundation as well as several humanitarianorganizations. He earned his medical degree from the University ofLiverpool Medical School, England, and completed a fellowship in clinicalendocrinology and nutrition at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis¹Department of Medicine and Food Science and Nutrition.
About the CTO Forum
The CTO Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a trusted, open and creative environment where the brightest minds of our times convene to address the industry’s most important issues. The CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology from different industries to define opportunities, and to collaborate in harnessing the extraordinary potential of technology. The CTO Forum’s mission is to deliver a Global Innovation Platform, where technology leaders collaborate and co-create the technology and solutions that will be critical to meeting tomorrow’s global opportunities and challenges. For more information, please visit
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo is a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $65 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands thatgenerate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales.Our mainbusinesses Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola makehundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are loved throughout the world. PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment tosustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and ourplanet, which we believe also, means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo'spromise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages from treats tohealthy eats; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on theenvironment by conserving energy and water and reducing packaging volume;to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, supportand invest in the local communities where we operate. For moreinformation, please visit
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